Saturday, July 20, 2013

PERFECT LOVE

     Beloved, let us love one another:  for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is loveIn this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.   (I John 3: 7-11)

   Sufficient to say is this:  when we accept Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, we thereby receive salvation from God; and when we receive Christ as our personal Savior, and for our salvation, we also receive the love of God:  for God is love.
   If we reject Christ as the Son of God, not only are we rejecting His salvation, but we are also rejecting the love of God:  and the love of God will not abide in our hearts.
   What the world needs, more than anything else, is the love of God; but because of the absence of the love of God in this world, this explains the violence and evil of people:  for if people had the love of God abiding in their hearts, they would not be so wicked.
   Please remember that Jesus did not come to earth to build a new religion, or a church with a specific name.  This interpretation is from unholy men, pretending to be holy, and pretending to be messengers and ministers of Christ, dressed in priestly garments.   As such, they have taken Christ and hidden Him within the tomb of a religious brand, in order to prevent people from knowing Christ:  teaching them that they must accept a religious brand of Christianity, and believing that they are Christians, just because they have accepted an institution of religion:  in the same way that cattle barons, or ranchers, brand their livestock; or that gang members brand their bodies with certain tattoos. 
   Truthfully, people will never have or receive the love of God without Christ:  this is impossible.  The world has love, yes, but it is a worldly love.  It is a love based on likes and dislikes, but it is not unconditional love. 
   God's love is perfect love, and God's love never changes:  for God is love.  God's love never changes because God's nature will never change.  Therefore, it is impossible for God not to love.
   In this world, however, love changes because worldly love is a conditional love:  and people stop loving one another when they stop liking one another. 
   Fake churches are congregations of people who have never accepted Christ as their Savior, therefore the love of God does not abide in them, neither within their institutions.  But they go on living by the doctrines and dogmas of their institutions, believing they are Christians because of their association, or membership, with a Christian brand, and not because of their relationship with Christ. For to believe in the born again experience, or to believe in the Holy Bible, is against their church law:  for they are governed by a legal system, and not by the grace of God.  In other words, they believe their salvation is achieved within their institution, and not by Christ.  Such people are, in fact, fake Christians, living lives of hypocrisy because they have believed in lies.
   How important, then, is the name of Jesus?
      Neither is there salvation in any other: 
        for there is none other name
         under heaven
             given among men,
         whereby we must be saved.  (Acts 4: 12)
   God loves us and He created us out of Himself.  But without His Son, we are unable to love Him, or to love others with the love of God.
  

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